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Edward Greenspon
Vice-President, Business Development, Toronto Star/Star Media Group |
In addition to his new role, Mr. Greenspon will also be writing a weekly column for the paper.
Mr. Greenspon was Editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail and globeandmail.com from 2002-2009, and also chaired the editorial board. During his tenure, the newspaper held its circulation amid historically challenging market conditions and grew its web traffic to 6.5-million unique visitors a month. He was the launch editor of globeandmail.com in June 2000.
Since leaving the Globe & Mail in 2009 he has chaired The GPS Project, an initiative of the Toronto-based Canadian International Council aimed at producing a new global positioning strategy for Canada.
Mr. Greenspon has a combined honours degree in journalism and political science from Carleton University and was a Commonwealth Scholar at the London School of Economics, earning a masters degree in politics and government with distinction in 1985.
He began his journalism career at the Lloydminster Times and also worked for the Regina Leader-Post and Financial Post before joining The Globe in 1986 as a business reporter specializing in media industries. He held various positions over the years, among them, European Correspondent, Deputy Managing Editor, Executive News Editor, and Ottawa Bureau Chief.
Mr. Greenspon's time in Europe coincided with some of the great economic and political upheavals of the late 20th century. He witnessed and wrote about the Polish roundtable that led to the end of communist rule, the revolution in Romania that overthrew Nicolae Ceausescu, the fall of the Berlin wall and the Ukrainian declaration of independence.
While based in Ottawa, he became well-known for his intimate knowledge of the Canadian political scene and his strong grasp of macro-economic and public policy issues. In 1995 he co-authored a book, Double Vision, The Inside Story of the Liberals in Power, for which he shared the 1996 Douglas Purvis Award for the best public policy book. In the fall of 2001, he and pollster Darrell Bricker published Searching for Certainty: Inside the New Canadian Mindset. He also was co-host of CTV's Question Period and a regular panelist on political and media issues at conferences and on television, radio and Internet.
Mr. Greenspon won the Hyman Soloman Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism in 2002 and he led The Globe to an unprecedented three Michener awards for public service journalism in the span of four years between 2004 and 2007.
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